Music in Eighteenth-Century England

The essays in this book are devoted to the social and intellectual background of eighteenth-century music.

1. The beginnings of provincial concert life in England Michael Tilmouth; 2. Thomas Tudway's History of Music Christopher Hogwood; 3. Purcellian passages in the compositions of G. F. Handel Franklin B. Zimmerman; 4. 'Or rather our musical Shakspeare': Charles Burney's Purcell Richard Luckett; 5. Walsh's editions of Handel's Opera 1-5: the texts and their sources Donald Burrows; 6. The recovery of Handel's operas Winton Dean; 7. Intellectual contexts of Handel's English oratorios Ruth Smith; 8. Handel's successor: notes on John Christopher Smith the younger Alfred Mann; 9. The late additions to Handel's oratorios and the role of the younger Smith Anthony Hicks; 10. Handel's harpsichord music: a checklist Terence Best; 11. New light on the libretto of The Creation Nicholas Temperley; 12. The English symphony: some additions and annotations to Charles Cudworth's published studies Jan LaRue; 13. Thematic index of English symphonies Charles Cudworth and Jan LaRue; 14. A bibliography of the writings of Charles Cudworth Richard Andrewes.